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Nadeem Aftab

Older people’s services (including frailty services)

Colchester Hospital

I have worked in the Trust since 2009. I run a Parkinson’s clinic at both Colchester and Clacton hospital. I work closely with the Parkinson’s nurses to help provide holistic care to patients in hospital as well as the community. I am also interested in developing frailty pathways for elderly patients to provide prompt comprehensive assessment of frail elderly patients and safe discharge to the patient’s own home.

Amanj Ahmad

Older people’s services (including frailty services)

Ipswich Hospital

I completed my specialty training in Geriatric medicine and General internal medicine in London (Lister Hospital, Barnet Hospital & University College London Hospital & St Pancras Hospital, and North Middlesex Hospital). I have been in the Trust since 2016. I have a keen interest in medical education and work as a Consultant on Woodbridge Ward, the Frailty Assessment Base and in the community at Felixstowe Hospital. My role involves enhancing integrated care and community care to support elderly care to live healthier and independent. I have a special interest in Future Hospital, Hospital at Home, and Discharge to Assess, Interface Geriatrics and Frailty. I work with a multidisciplinary team of therapists and specialist nurses to support elderly people to live independently in the community.

Sajid Alam

Stroke Medicine

Ipswich Hospital

I qualified at the Bart’s & London School of Medicine and Dentistry in 2004. Following most of my junior doctor medical rotations in Essex and Suffolk I was appointed to the Geriatric Medicine Specialty programme in the East of England Deanery. I also undertook a year of sub-specialist training for stroke medicine at Southend University Hospital. I completed my training in 2014. I worked at West Suffolk Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and at Southend University Hospital at the start of my Consultant career before deciding to settle at Ipswich hospital. I look after patients who have suffered a stroke and those with general medical problems.

Shazia Awais

Older people’s services (including frailty services)

Ipswich Hospital

I completed specialty training in the East of England deanery obtaining CCT in 2010. I have clinical responsibility for complex short-stay inpatients and provide support for a nurse-led rehab ward at Ipswich Hospital; in addition to surgical liaison and ad hoc input for orthogeriatric. I hold fortnightly medical outpatient clinics and a weekly whole day clinic in the Frailty Assessment Base. I also provide weekly clinical input at Bluebird Lodge Community Hospital and I am clinical lead for delirium beds at Barking Hall Nursing Home. My other interests include the training of junior doctors and I am also a MRCP PACES examiner.

Sam Blows

Older people’s services (including frailty services)

Ipswich Hospital

I graduated from Leicester Medical School in 2006. I completed my specialty training in Geriatric Medicine on the North Central London Deanery taking a sabbatical at Bankstown Hospital, Sydney, Australia. I have an interest in medical education and work as a Consultant on the Constable Suite, Frailty Assessment Base and in the community.

Julie Brache

Older people’s services (including frailty services)

Ipswich Hospital

I have been a Consultant at Ipswich since 2005. I am the clinical lead for Older People’s services. My specialist interest is Falls and orthogeriatrics and I also run the Tilt Table service. I am based on the Fragility Fracture Ward (Saxmundham) and work closely with orthopaedic and rheumatology colleagues to provide care for older people admitted with hip fractures.

Muhibbur Chowdhury

Stroke Medicine

Ipswich Hospital

I joined the stroke team at Ipswich Hospital in October 2012, working out of Shotley Ward where hyperacute and acute stroke services are provided. The RAPIDS clinic allows Consultants to see TIA referrals seven days a week. We are looking to consolidate our position in the region to drive up the quality of the service provided for Suffolk residents providing a complete stroke pathway in keeping with the National Stroke Strategy and Stroke Improvement National Audit Programme (SINAP).

Elena Jamieson

Older people’s services (including frailty services)

Ipswich Hospital

I am a specialist in movement disorders and Parkinson’s disease, providing comprehensive geriatric assessment of older people at the hospital and in the community. I work with GPs, community based nurses and therapists in the Ipswich area and provide patient’s home visits when required. My research interests are vascular and lewy body dementia. I am the adult safeguarding lead at the Ipswich Hospital, specialising in medico-legal aspects of patient’s care.

Selina Lim

Older people’s services (including frailty services)

Ipswich Hospital

I joined Ipswich Hospital in 2016, having previously worked as a Consultant in East Kent and in Croydon. I am involved in community geriatrics at Bluebird Lodge Community Hospital and the Reactive Emergency Assessment Community Team. I also provide care home in-reach into local care homes, working alongside the CCG.

Timothy Lockington

Older people’s services (including frailty services)

Ipswich Hospital

I joined Ipswich Hospital in 1995 and was clinical lead for geriatric medicine from 1998 to 2009 seeing the department through a period of considerable change including the development of the hospital’s ‘Complex Care’ model of specialist wards. A Cambridge and Royal London Hospital graduate, I trained in Hull, Birmingham (QEH – nephrology/endocrinology) and Charing Cross Hospital (diabetes/endocrinology) where I completed my MD. I have worked in geriatric medicine since 1998 firstly at Charing Cross and then as a senior registrar at the Royal London Hospital, developing my interest in Parkinson’s Disease and bringing insights from my previous career and research in diabetes medicine to support Parkinson’s patient care. My community geriatric work provides consultancy on movement disorders to all the East Suffolk Community (inpatient and domiciliary bases) and I provide a domiciliary service as requested. I am currently dementia lead for Ipswich Hospital. I have a special interest in movement disorders, Parkinson’s Disease and related dementia and community geriatric medicine.

Teshk Shawis

Jane Shoote

Older people’s services (including frailty services)

Ipswich Hospital

I am a Consultant in geriatric and general internal medicine and am one of three Consultants based on the complex care unit at Ipswich Hospital. I have a special interest in dementia and interface geriatrics and am also involved in community geriatric medicine at Bluebird Lodge Community Hospital and Felixstowe Community Hospital.